[NEWS] Five sci-fi links: cyberpunk zombies, Alita: Battle Angel, women, W40K, The Silent Star

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• Jesse Scott in The Guardian of Charlottetown considers the idea the cyberpunk might be in a process of being zombified.


• McKenna Gray at On The A Side suggests that James Cameron's decision to wait until the technology caught up to his vision helps make Alita: Battle Angel a success.


• Wired notes the research of Lisa Yaszek, who argues the belief that early science fiction was lacking women writers is false, that it was instead a matter of misogynistic anthologists hiding women writers' work.


• This delightful Alex Hern article in The Guardian takes a look at how Warhammer40K has become such a huge hit.


• Eric Schewe at JSTOR Daily looks at the 1960 East German SF film The Silent Star, a remarkably inclusive utopian vision of the future that--conceivably--did set a precedent for Star Trek.